One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 30946

Register of landowners and plots for tax purposes, with boundary description TM 30946Philadelphia (Arsinoites)III

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Fragment of a register of landowners listing small plots held by individuals, including a former high priest and a veteran, with totals of private land and wheat dues. It ends with a description of the boundaries of a land parcel bounded by canals and water channels. From Philadelphia in the Arsinoite nome, 3rd century AD.

In English machine translation

[…] … through inheritance, […] arouras […] Sarapis, at Moeris, 1/2 1/4 aroura […] … not consolidated (?), 1/2 1/4 aroura […] son of […]iskos, Seren… and … […] Maron, former high priest, 2 arouras […] Didymos, veteran, at the Demetrieion, 1 aroura [margin] 14 […] total 3,000 drachmas […] … of the owners above, as aforesaid, sheet 2 […] […] … sphragis (?) of unflooded land; the remaining private land, 160 1/2 1/4 1/32 arouras […] wheat, 236 1/3 1/24 1/48 artabas. […] … together with the water channels existing in part, and […] … and farmsteads; on the south, public […] […] … and in some part desert, [and] other […] […] on the north, the canal called Th[…]nepitis […] … on the east, the canal … […] […] of Philoteris; on the west, a water channel.

Abrochos land is land not reached by the Nile flood, normally taxed at reduced rates. Several readings, including the canal names and the sphragis (a land block), are uncertain.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Bruchstück einer Aufstellung von Grundbesitzern mit Angabe von Besitzstücken zu Steuerzwecken). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

bgu.7.1623

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · III · Philadelphia (Arsinoites)

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